Child Abuse Identification and Reporting: The Pennsylvania Requirement _____________________________
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CHILD ABUSE IDENTIFICATION AND REPORTING: THE PENNSYLVANIA REQUIREMENT Select the best answer for each question and mark your answers on page 76. For faster service, complete your test online at EliteLearning.com/Book.
1. A mandated reporter must immediately make a report if they have reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse under which of the following circumstances? A) The mandated reporter comes into contact with the child in the course of employment, occupation, and practice of a profession or through a regularly scheduled program, activity, or service. B) A person makes a specific disclosure to the mandated reporter that an identifiable child is the victim of child abuse. C) An individual 14 years of age or older makes a specific disclosure to the mandated reporter that the individual has committed child abuse. D) Any of the above 2. Which of the following statements regarding mandated reporting is TRUE? A) A mandated reporter is presumed to have acted in good faith when making a report of suspected child abuse. B) Section 6311 of the PA CPSL requires a child to come before the mandated reporter in order for the mandated reporter to make a report of suspected child abuse. C) Section 6311 of the PA CPSL requires the mandated reporter to identify the person responsible for the child abuse in order to make a report of suspected child abuse. D) The PA CPSL requires a person who has reasonable
3. What is the basis for reporting suspected child abuse? A) A “reasonable cause to suspect” a child is a victim of child abuse
B) Law enforcement responsibility C) Witnessing any struggle by a child D) Avoidance of potential liability
4. Nothing in the PA CPSL requires a person who has reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse to identify the type of abuse they are reporting when making a report of suspected child abuse.
A) True B) False
5. What does the PA CPSL recognize as the three key components of child abuse? A) Injury, intention, and isolation B) Child; act or failure to act, recent act, recent act or failure to act, or a series of acts or failures to act; and intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly C) Victim; an investigation that reaches a conclusion of intended injury; and involvement of law enforcement D) Age younger than 10 years; interaction with a known and identified perpetrator; and unintentionally, accidently, or carelessly 6. If they have reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse, a mandated reporter must immediately make a report suspected child abuse to A) a supervisor. B) ChildLine, Pennsylvania’s 24/7 Child Abuse Hotline and Registry, electronically through the Child Welfare Portal. C) ChildLine, Pennsylvania’s 24/7 Child Abuse Hotline and Registry, by calling 1-800-932-0313. D) Either B or C
cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse to consider the exclusions from child abuse in order to make a report of suspected child abuse.
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